Book Excerpt
Starting a Stable Foundation for You and Your Family
W
e are so busy, we rarely even consider the foundation of our
life. We just get through each day and hope it all turns out fine.
The good thing about building a
life is we get to pick today what we will build on tomorrow. Yesterday may have been a mess, but today you have the option to either build on yesterday’s mess or start a new stable foundation for you and your family tomorrow. If you are trying to change the
world through politics, but you are ignoring your marriage, your kids, and your grandkids, you are building your life on a weak foundation. I have seen too many people in leadership lose their marriage and family because they walked away from their foundation. Your first task is to love your
“Don’t worry about where the beginning spot is,” he said. “Begin where you stand and keep going from there.” In order to begin the turnaround, he said we can take a cue from the Book of Nehemiah, where people started to quickly rebuild the wall around Jerusalem that had been destroyed for a century simply by repairing the wall by their own homes. “The perspective is,
‘What’s your part’?” he said. “You may think Washing- ton’s messed up. It is. “So, what about next to
your house? What about in your neighborhood? What about in your school board? “How do you get involved
in turning the nation around? By working in the spots next to you, right there, and saying, ‘Pick a spot, get to work.’”
family and pass on the right values to them. No other task will be greater than that one, and no one is more
qualified than you to do it. There is a reason one of the
most critical passages of Scripture in the Jewish and Christian faith is Deuteronomy 6:5-9: “Love the Lord your God with
all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” A friend of mine posted in his house their family declaration. He and his wife sat for an evening and discussed the key values they wanted to pass down to their children, then they printed up the list and posted it. They talk about one of their values each week and remind each other that they are all trying to live out their family declaration. It sounds like Deuteronomy 6
in action. Intentionally living and passing down their foundational values. Foundations of faith, patriotism, moral values, and excellence must be caught and taught. They absolutely can be passed down when we intentionally model those foundational truths. We won’t be perfect, but we
should strive for better. If we are going to help our nation with its turnaround, we need to make sure we are living on a solid foundation before we pick up Archimedes’ lever and try to move the world.
ORDER YOUR BOOK
You can claim a FREE copy of Turnaround: America’s Revival with our special offer. Save $29.99 when you go online today!
Turnaround411.com/Adv
APRIL 2025 | NEWSMAX 43
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100
